Quotes About Fairness

In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

When you're taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you've got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you're doing is fair and seen to be fair.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.

Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

For he who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power, and he who takes up a greater amount; not having deposited it, is wholly unjust.

They should live all together on an equal footing; merit to be their only road to eminence, and the disgrace of evil, and credit of worthy acts, their one measure of difference between man and man.

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

Help your children to see and notice poverty and differences in privilege that seem inhumane and unfair. Do this in a way that does not increase guilt or shame for what you have as a family, but rather helps them see their responsibility for sharing with others and keeping others in mind.

If you want peace, work for justice.

seorang terpelajar harus sudah berbuat adil sejak dalam pikiran apalagi dalam perbuatan

Seorang terpelajar harus juga belajar berlaku adil sudah sejak dalam pikiran, apalagi perbuatan.

Seorang terpelajar itu harus adil, sejak dalam pikiran! [Bumi Manusia]

Orang Cendekia sudah harus adil sejak dari pikiran

Seorang terpelajar harus berlaku adil sudah sejak dalam pikiran, apalagi dalam perbuatan,

Kau terpelajar, Minke, Seorang terpelajar harus juga belajar berlaku adil sudah sejak dalam pikiran, apalagi dalam perbuatan. Itulah memang arti terpelajar itu. . . .

Bersikap adillah sejak dalam pikiran. Jangan menjadi hakim bila kau belum tahu duduk perkara yang sebenarnya.